Point info wanted. First find of my life. Front range Colorado

[arrowseeker]

Curious on tribe origin and age and anything else that can be shared. Thanks so much

 

[Older The Better]

looks like a Grand/hopewell/gibson/pelican lake, I’m not sure what it’s called in Colorado, can’t find that, but if it’s a woodland point then it’s not necessarily associated with a tribe. If you go back far enough in time and people are identified by the form of the tools in their kit. Like Clovis for example, Florida Clovis people likely had little to do with Washington Clovis people as far as a tribal identity but they share a point form

 

[arrowseeker]

looks like a Grand/hopewell/gibson/pelican lake, I’m not sure what it’s called in Colorado, can’t find that, but if it’s a woodland point then it’s not necessarily associated with a tribe. If you go back far enough in time and people are identified by the form of the tools in their kit. Like Clovis for example, Florida Clovis people likely had little to do with Washington Clovis people as far as a tribal identity but they share a point form

Thanks ! Any thoughts on age ?

 

[CreekSide]

Thanks ! Any thoughts on age ?

It has everything going for it. Nice shape and color. But I’m having problems finding it in the state you gave. Maybe tell us how you found it and if it was a waterway or what?

 

[opalboy]

It looks like petrified wood from the Elizabeth area. Cool find.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I don’t think the western US had a woodland period. Woodland is defined as being in the eastern US. The woodland era in the east started about 1000 bc. In the west at that time they were still in the late archaic.

 

[Older The Better]

You’re right on that, it gets confusing when I’m doing my Kansas research because the eastern third tends to follow woodland/Mississippian periods and the western 2/3rd use plains and ceramic divisions and they do start later as you go west

I guess in my mind I was thinking it sure looks like an eastern type point I was wandering if it had came east by trade but I don’t know Colorado point types so the more likely answer is a western type with a similar form. Whatever you want to name the period many of the points with that form cluster 3,000-1,000 years ago… not to be confused with bc… another fun flip flop that you have to keep an eye on when reading dates in research

 

[arrowseeker]

It has everything going for it. Nice shape and color. But I’m having problems finding it in the state you gave. Maybe tell us how you found it and if it was a waterway or what?

Found front range of Colorado. Walking a creek. It was higher up about 20 feet from the water. In a washout area in the willows

 

[arrowseeker]

It looks like petrified wood from the Elizabeth area. Cool find.

Found directly west of Elizabeth

 

[ncsuwolf]

Curious on tribe origin and age and anything else that can be shared. Thanks so much
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Whatever it turns out to be, it’s a heck of a first point….or any point for that matter

 

[CreekSide]

Found front range of Colorado. Walking a creek. It was higher up about 20 feet from the water. In a washout area in the willows

Has a Hopewell look to it as others have said. I still can’t put a name to it but will send a pic to someone I know
Chase might know he is from your state

 

[CreekSide]

Have to look it up yet but here’s your answer
Maybe a different guide than what I have will tell you the age

 

[arrowseeker]

Have to look it up yet but here’s your answer
Maybe a different guide than what I have will tell you the age

Thank you! You think the tip was broken off ?

 

[tamrock]

Nice find. What county was it found. I found a little site that's yielded a few finds here on the front range of Boulder county. No complete arrowheads though, but did find a nice mano stone. That tan color material is common one artifacts are produced from all over Colorado I've found mostly east of the Rockies. I think artifacts made of that tan material is found all the way east to western Kansas and Oklahoma. I'm not sure of where it primarily comes from, but pieces of it I've found all over a vast area of the high plains country all the way up to the headwaters of the Arkansas.

 

[CreekSide]

Thank you! You think the tip was broken off ?

I’ve found knifes with rounded tips but I can’t say for certain it’s not broken on the tip. It’s a old break if it is.

 

[unclemac]

looks like yellow jasper to me

 

[tamrock]

looks like yellow jasper to me

A type of jasper is what I've always referred the ones I've found.

 

[Rockdog]

Thank you! You think the tip was broken off ?

There looks to be a small chip on one side of the tip but I'd say it was always rounded because it doesn't look reworked. Nice find.